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    "id": 1129034,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1129034/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "There has been a debate here of what the right age is. From my experience, I attended the same faculty at undergraduate with engineers. While many of us left university at around 24 years or 25 years, the engineering course took six years. So, by the time they were leaving university after their undergraduate they are about 27 years. More less without doubt, there is no way one can get registered as an engineer until one has worked for at least five years. So, by the time one is registered as an engineer, one is in mid-thirties. There is no doubt about it. The sooner one becomes and engineer – before one gets registered, he is not an engineer. He is just an apprentice or a quack like anybody else working in the engineering sector. Obviously, after you become an engineer, you need to build confidence with your colleagues, you need to build confidence with all stakeholders working in the sector. It can never take you two years to build confidence and it can never take five years to build confidence for you to showcase, exhibit or demonstrate that you are able to understand the engineering process all the way from feasibility studies; scooping, design, review of design and supervising during construction. These are hands on jobs. So, a minimum period of ten years post-registration is reasonable for purposes of building confidence in your colleagues and building confidence everywhere."
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